2025-26 Performing Arts Series
An extraordinary season celebrating 28 years of great performances!
The Goshen College Music Center is thrilled to welcome you back to Sauder Concert Hall to again experience the magic of live performances in the 2025-26 Performing Arts Series. Ten extraordinary performances feature new artists and returning audience favorites. While sharing the common characteristic of virtuosity in their respective fields, these performers comprise an eclectic series representing a variety of genres. As always, the series assures that you can experience an incredible breadth of top-quality performances right here on the campus of Goshen College!
Up to Ten Outstanding Concerts to Choose From
This year’s regular season ticket package again includes six concerts. You have two options to create your package:
- Four core performances are set for each season ticket.
- Choose two additional performances from the remaining choices. Of course, you can add as many of the remaining performances as you’d like to customize your season ticket package.
- Choose all 10 shows and receive the biggest discount.
Performers in the 2025-26 Performing Arts Series – Core Shows
These four concerts are a part of every Performing Arts Series season ticket package.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®
Where: Sauder Concert Hall
Price: $70/$60/$40
Sat, May 16th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall
Grammy-nominated African American vocal ensemble SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK® marks its’ 50th anniversary with a powerful three-year celebration that will honor its storied past and set the course for the future of the group, which has been described as, “one of the most dynamic, versatile and still relevant musical collectives today.”
Since its inception in Washington, D.C. in 1973, Sweet Honey in the Rock has thrived as a performance ensemble founded on the missions of empowerment, education, and entertainment. Throughout five decades, the ensemble members have worked to create engaging and socially conscious music that consistently takes an active stance toward making our planet a better place for all in which to live.
“Their sheer musicianship can still raise goosebumps.”
– The Guardian
This performance is sign-language interpreted.
Performers in the 2025-26 Performing Arts Series – Choice Shows
Choose two additional performances from the list below to complete your season ticket package – or add all six, for a total of ten outstanding shows!
Voctave
Where: Sauder Concert Hall
Price: $60/$55/$40
Sat, Dec 13th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall
A cappella sensation Voctave has had over 160 million social media views of their videos, and their albums frequently debut in the top 10 on the Billboard and iTunes charts. In 2024, they released the third volume in their popular The Corner of Broadway & Main Street series. Formed in 2015 by producer and arranger Jamey Ray, the voices that bring their arrangements to life represent a wealth of diverse backgrounds and musical experiences. The group has performed with Grammy, Dove and American Music Award recipients including Sandi Patty, Pentatonix’s Kirstin Maldonado, Mark Lowry, David Phelps, and Jody McBrayer.
“The eleven member team Voctave bring a cappella music to a new dimension as they arrange jazz standards and soundtrack tunes in a clever vocal fashion.”
– Jazz Weekly
SPECIAL PRE-SHOW ENTERTAINMENT
Luminos is a five-member modern a capella group based in Northern Indiana. The group formed in 2018 from students at Bethel University. Their unique brand of entertainment fuses vocal instruments with heart-tugging harmonies and choreo. Their variety of genres will compel you to engage, whether that is to laugh, cry, dance, clap, or sing along.
Luminos has released three albums and several singles available on all streaming platforms. In May of 2023, the group won the grand prize at Oaklawn’s Got Talent in Elkhart Indiana.
Luminos will perform beginning at 6:50 pm before the 7:30 pm Voctave performance.
Vitaly: An Evening of Wonders
Where: Sauder Concert Hall
Price: $60/$50/$35
Fri, Mar 27th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall
Faces that disappear from drivers’ licenses. Paintbrushes that paint on their own. Photographs that literally come to life right before your eyes. Brace yourself for a whole new take on magic and step into Vitaly’s world. Hailed as “one of the most unique and innovative illusionists in the world” (Chicago Tribune), Vitaly Beckman stumped Penn & Teller three times on their hit TV show Fool Us and starred in his own 16-week off-Broadway run. Blending art and illusion with his captivating style, Vitaly Beckman’s one-of-a-kind theatrical experience retraces his journey from a boy with a dream to a man with a vision. During this journey, the audience rediscovers, along with Vitaly, the importance of finding beauty and wonder in everyday life and in all living things.
“Amazing magic! Ingenious!”
– Penn & Teller
This show is recommended for ages 8 and up.
Discounts available for season ticket purchases!
The prices listed for each show are full price, but by purchasing a season ticket package, you receive 10% off of individual ticket prices for savings of up to $59!
Buying a season package gives you the first chance to secure your preferred seating location and ensures that you receive the same seats for each performance.
We hope that you will enjoy the variety of offerings, and that you join us for as many of these outstanding performances as you can! We suggest submitting your season ticket orders as soon as possible to reserve seating in your preferred area with the same seat for each concert.
Previous season ticket holders: Be sure to order by Friday, June 6, 2025 to receive your seating preference. After that date, we will do our best to accommodate your preferences.
If you would like to be seated with another party, please include their name during the ordering process.
How to order and reserve your seats!
This year, you have three options to order your season ticket packages:
- Order ONLINE by visiting goshen.edu/tickets
- Order by phone – Goshen College Box Office – (574) 535-7566
- Order in person at the Goshen College Box Office located in the Music Center.
Box Office Hours:
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (closed Wednesdays)
Individual tickets, if available, will go on sale Monday, August 4, 2025 at the Goshen College Box Office or by ordering online.
